About this title: Examines the amusing perceptions that people historically have had about the world and the universe, with a look at the world map today and passages from memorable travel writers.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Morrow
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780688103323ISBN:0688103324
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, 1"x2" piece cut out of top of back cover, library stamps & stickers, stk #2445k8. 384 p. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date Published: 1993-11-01
ISBN-13:9780380713790ISBN:0380713799
Description: Very Good. No folded pages. Small black marker spot on corner of first page but no other writing. Light cover wear, mostly at edges. read more
Edition: Reprint. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780380713790ISBN:0380713799
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations. Don't Know Much About...(Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Extremely nice copy. A few smudges on outer page edges, very light wear to covers and spine, totally clean & unmarked inside. read more
Description: Acceptable. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Acceptable condition-only fair due to underlining or highlighting or both; marginalia in pencil and/or pen on internal pages. DJ is Very Good. In sealed plastic protection. 1st ed. 1992. Hardcover w / dustjacket. read more
"I'd owned this for a long time before I finally read it. It was a mostly-interesting survey of geography, but nothing that made a huge impression on me."
"Puts me to sleep sometimes but I'm learning things. Some of those things are interesting.
The book sprinkles excerpts from people in history. My favorite is by Neil Amrstrong the man on the moon:
"We were still thousands of miles away, but close enough, so that the Moon almost filled our circular window. It was eclipsing the Sun, from our position, and the corona of the Sun was visible around the limb of the Moon as a gigantic lens-shaped or saucer-shaped light, stretching out to several lunar diameters. It was magnificent, but the Moon was even more so. We were in its shadow, so there was no part of it illuminated by the Sun. It was illuminated only by earthshine. It made the Moon appear blue-gray, and the entire scene looked decidedly three-dimensional... The sky is black, you know. It's a very dark sky. But it still seemed more like daylight than darkness as we looked out the window. It's a peculiar thing, but the surface looked very warm and inviting. It was the sort of situation in which you felt like going out there in nothing but a swimming suit to get a little sun. From the cockpit, the surface seemed to be tan. It's hard to account for that, because later when I held this material in my hand, it wasn't tan at all. It was black, gray and so on. It's some kind of lighting effect, but out the window the surface looks much more like light desert sand than black sand..." (p.324)"
"I got this at a booksale and thought it would be ok, but I actually learned some stuff and it was written with a good sense of humor, like "who killed the dead sea?"."
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